In article <[🔎]20040920184203.GA2984@balder.anrpg.homeip.net>,
Floris Bruynooghe <fb102@soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>I had a computer (old PC) running at my student house over the holidays
>and was using it (as I am now) to ssh into and do my normal work etc.
>Just by accident I discovered the `who -d' command and saw I had a
>couple of 100 processes listed that way. Also they where using up my
>pty's. Coz I was scared of running out of pty's I rebooted the system
>since then. But I get again lots of dead processes.
Are you sure those dead processes actually exist ..
who -d doesn't list dead processes. who -d lists empty slots in
the /var/run/utmp file.
Mike.
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